Soccer (Closing)

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Pep is just high maintenance tbh

Pep doesn't rly have a reason to leave City. Only other team where he'd get the same resources is PSG and it's a shitshow of a club in a much weaker league. Unless he gets bored and goes back to Barca I don't rly see him leaving. Maybe to Italy if Klopp somehow ends up there or an NT.

Same as gerrard. Gerrard was winning SPl without losing a match.

Last season watched his team when roma played against Bayer laverkusen.

They struggled to get a shot on target in almost 200 minutes of football. He had no clue to how to do things differently. And that was a roma team without 6-7 first teams players.

Gerrard had the massive fortune of Celtic absolutely collapsing after Rodger’s left mid season and gave the job to Neil Lennon. Won less trophies that season than St Johnstone did. His success in Scotland is massively overstated, almost everyone here thinks of his time here as a failure with a bright spot. While being near penniless, he managed to bring on a shit load of debt while raising the playing wage budget greater than celtics. Rangers are suffering for it now.

He promoted Real Sociedad B you know. He has shown incredible flexibility by going in from a fully defensive league to a full offensive league. He has shown he can play 3223,433 and his current 3412 seamlessly. He has studied under Mourinho at his peak, Pep and Ancelotti. He took Leverkusen last season from the end to where they should have been.

In this season he has shown his flexibility and the ability to switch tactics on the fly and is undefeated everywhere, despite playing both RaBa and Bayern. It is obvious that he would slip in in January and February due to AFCON, but so far there is a lot to be hyped for.

And well, Zidane dog walked everyone and he barely had any experience with senior sides aside from some experience as assistant manager when he started. Experience doesn't equal tactical prowess.

At this point it's all but confirmed Xabi will be our next manager, right? godspeed, hopefully florentino supports him and sign the players he wants/needs to succeed.

I want to believe

I honestly hope Pep Lijnders takes over for Klopp when Klopp leaves. He’s earned it and would be the perfect person to carry on the good work Klopp started and maintain the continuity and clarity in purpose, team building, and man management already in place, but he’d also bring a fresh energy and some new ideas.

I really do think that management transition at Liverpool could parallel that if the switch from Bill Shankly to Bob Paisley, if not in exact trophy count but at least in sustained success season over season.

But if not Pep Lijnders, then Xabi Alonso is my very next preferred choice to take over after Klopp.

reminder that there is NO PRIMARY SOURCE for this and this information was deleted from SportBilds website. Take it with a grain of salt

Real Sociedad in the muddle